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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS






2. The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation - as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the letters e - i - or y (the softeners) - to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) soun






3. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.






4. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi






5. The curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a sound picture or phonic/dictionary symbol notation that indicates a short sound in a closed syllable in which at least one consonant comes after the vowel in the same syllable.






6. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






7. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.

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8. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.






9. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)






10. Tests used to identify the nature and source of an individual's educational - psychological - or medical difficulties or disabilities in order to facilitate correction or remediation.






11. 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T. Orton at Columbia University - developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time. began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 t






12. Multisensory Structured Language Education






13. Expects child to learn reading as "naturally" as speech - Uses child's oral language as content for reading - Uses child's oral language as basis for spelling instruction - Children learn to "read" by reading and re-reading "big books" together with

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14. English as a second language






15. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






16. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning






17. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.






18. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






19. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds






20. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928






21. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.






22. Was a pivotal event in English history. It largely removed the native ruling class - replacing it with a foreign - French-speaking monarchy - aristocracy - and clerical hierarchy. This - in turn - brought about a transformation of the English languag






23. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.






24. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.






25. Ability to understand and express spoken language






26. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






27. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.






28. Gray Oral Reading Test-Fourth Edition Screening test. Provides an efficient and objective measure of growth in oral reading and an aid in the diagnosis of oral reading difficulties Standard Scores - Percentile Ranks - Grade Equivalents - Age Equivale






29. Involve at least two people. It includes the ability to maintain eye contact - understand body language of others - take turns in a conversation - stick to the subject - and use oral language appropriate for the situation.






30. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.






31. Comprehensive end-of-year exams - reflecting the specific subject matter outlines in the curriculum.






32. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






33. Children may be physical and socially immature - may be awkward in social situations - may have difficulty reading social cues - may have trouble finding the right words - stammering. - may feel anxious in school






34. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example






35. Is one that provides for translating test scores into a statement about the behavior to be expected of a person with that score or their relationship to a specified subject matter. Most tests and quizzes written by school teachers are criterion-refer






36. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality






37. 1925 - Coined the term "strephosymbolia" which means twisted symbols; Pathologist - neurologist and psychitrist in the US - studied with Dr. Alzheimer in Germany - work influenced by James Hinshelwood






38. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words






39. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.






40. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.






41. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.






42. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.






43. The percentile score on - for example - a test is the score that represents the percent of other scores to or lower than is. If a student performs in the 85% of his or her class - it means the 85% of the other scores of students who also took the tes






44. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.






45. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable






46. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others






47. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet






48. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.






49. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel






50. A term coined by Stanovich to describe a phenomenon observed in findings of cumulative advantage for children who read well and have good vocabulary and cumulative disadvantage for those who have inadequate vocabularies and read less and thus have lo